Here’s an interview with a GQ journalist who suffered a few months of testosterone deficiency. He explains the feelings I’ve experienced much better than I could myself.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/220/testosterone
(Listen from 4:50 onwards).
He seems quite sanguine about the experience, but that’s easy when you’ve recovered.
Yeah i get that too, i don’t think my emotions are completely gone, but definitely numbed. I always feel more normal when talking tot other people. I think noone would ever suspect that something is up with me. It’s when i’m alone that i’m most aware of it all. I a weird way tho it’s like the body’s way of protecting me. Apathy is better than depression… right?
This is one of the biggest symptoms that makes living difficult. Not happy, not depressed just numb and blunted. Nothing excites me, there is no sense of pleasure. The ability to feel pleasure, or love, or any sort of… rush is gone.
Absolutely nothing feels the same. Like others have posted previously, who aren’t able to cry about this… I can’t either? Very strange feeling.
Ya, I was always a big crybaby in the old days. Overflowing with enthusiasm and laughter too, maybe to an extreme. My family chocked it up to me being a hormonal teenager. I feel like a complete robot a majority of the time now.
Is anyone familiar with the Vulcans from Star Trek…? I could pass for one.
Yea man I miss the feeling of just waking up, drinking some coffee and enjoying the weather. Or a favorite song on the radio. I hope this isnt forever its no way to live at 23. Just before fin my best friend/ ex girlfiend passed, and I cried for like a week but it felt healthy to let it out. Now when I think of her I feel very little emotion. Very disturbing to me. That was only three months ago… ive been off fin for 2 1/2 months…
I can relate…I took that damn saw palmetto and I lost all my emotions for months…then they came back and I was able to cry when someone died in a movie for example…but more than a year off the drug I still have trouble feeling sorry for people when they die or something traumatic happens to them I dont cry… im definately not myself anymore in the emotional department… I was a cry baby before even at age 23 now I kinda feel like a serial killer like a psycophat…sucks like hell